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Jun 29
Some 95 % of New Yorkers who own “assault weapons” appear to be disobeying a recent State law requiring them to register.
Gun controllers often promise that their “registration” schemes will never be used to confiscate firearms. They push for laws that require all gun owners (or owners of certain types of guns) to “register” their guns with government officials. It’s just a public safety measure, the gun controllers will often say. But a decade after California …
Jun 29
Guantanamo inmates deteriorating after multi-year hunger strikes
Who would have predicted 20 years ago that the United States would erect a prison system to hold inmates for life without charges, due process or evidence? The U.S. concentration camp at Guantanamo is approaching its 15th anniversary, and dozens of inmates continue to be held without charge. The Center for Constitutional Rights is reporting …
Jun 28
Bernie Sanders Says He will “Make Corporations Pay Their fair share” even as the U.S. has the world’s highest corporate tax rates.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Socialist-Vt), is campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President. His stump speech reportedly contains a promise to raise taxes on corporations and make them pay their “fair share.” The problem is that the U.S. already has the world’s highest corporate tax rates. Hundreds of corporations are fleeing the U.S., looking for …
Jun 28
Greek society has been destroyed by welfare and government spending.
Today, June 28, 2015: Greek and European central bankers have declared an incredible SIX-DAY CLOSURE of Greece’s banks. Greece has been bankrupted by years of welfare spending, punishment of savers and entrepreneurs, and overregulation. Now the once-proud-but-now-bankrupt nation will experience the final wages of socialism and extravagant social spending: massive poverty, unemployment, debt and perpetual …
Jun 28
“Campaign Finance Reformers” Complain Only About Private-Sector Political Spending—While Ignoring Government Political Spending
NFL football games regularly feature displays honoring the U.S. military: moments of silence, speeches and videos honoring the troops, and even synchronized air force “flyovers” in which F-16 jets fly over NFL stadiums in formation while fans cheer. It came out in March 2015 that everything—even the moments of silence—are paid for by the U.S. …
Jun 28
THE ONION asks why humanity continues to allow its most power-hungry members to make all of humanity’s decisions.
THE ONION, America’s premier mock newspaper, has long exhibited a libertarian, anti-government streak. Now THE ONION has hit the nail on the head: “Humanity Surprised It Still Hasn’t Figured Out Better Alternative To Letting Power-Hungry Assholes Decide Everything.” The same question has been asked repeatedly by economists of the Austrian School, and of social scientists …
Jun 28
Government’s global-warming hysteria mostly based on deliberate manipulation of data.
Those who study climate (and the political climate debate) are well aware of how the government has presented an exaggerated case for carbon-dioxide-driven global warming: Government-supported scientists have “modeled” warming that doesn’t exist in reality; government-supported scientists have made emotional arguments; government-supported scientists have substituted unreliable temperature proxies cherrypicked to show a colder past (e.g., …
Jun 28
ARCTIC sea ice, like Antarctic sea ice, is expanding, not retracting.
A prevalent claim of global-warming alarmists is that ice in the arctic is receding. This was a central point of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” movie. But arctic sea ice has been growing for years and is at its highest level in 10 years. This is consistent with ANTARCTIC sea ice, which is at or …
Jun 28
Government Begins Pressuring Medical Profession to Spread Climate-Change Propaganda
“Climate-change” hysteria is very much a movement of the highest government officials, the ultra-rich and wealthy academic elites. It is not a movement of a majority of Americans. The hysteria has been widely promoted by government agencies, and by wealthy political donors. But government global-warming messaging has failed to resonate with voting majorities, who view …
Jun 27
“Limited Government” Republicans in Kansas–like those in Montana, Nevada, and elsewhere–have just passed one of the largest tax increases in state history.
NPR has a story about the “conservative,” “limited-government,” “tea-party-controlled” Republican legislature of Kansas. Like the overwhelmingly Republican-controlled legislatures of Nevada, Montana and elsewhere, the Republican-controlled legislature of Kansas has just enacted a budget with some of the highest tax increases in state history.
